Results 2,161-2,180 of 2,343 for speaker:Michael Colreavy
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Grid Link Project: EirGrid (4 Nov 2015)
Michael Colreavy: No, my question was whether we were capable of using less expensive and far less obtrusive compensation technology in Northern Ireland if Northern Ireland had the same mesh infrastructure as the South.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Grid Link Project: EirGrid (4 Nov 2015)
Michael Colreavy: It is difficult to see how we cannot connect in the same way as we are able to connect Cork with Dublin.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Grid Link Project: EirGrid (4 Nov 2015)
Michael Colreavy: What is the distance between the two meshes?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Grid Link Project: EirGrid (4 Nov 2015)
Michael Colreavy: Between the Northern Ireland network and that of the Republic.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Grid Link Project: EirGrid (4 Nov 2015)
Michael Colreavy: Can that 40 km not be run underground?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Grid Link Project: EirGrid (4 Nov 2015)
Michael Colreavy: That 40 km-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Grid Link Project: EirGrid (4 Nov 2015)
Michael Colreavy: I need more information on that. I do not understand it.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2015)
Michael Colreavy: It is €18 million less.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hydraulic Fracturing Policy (10 Nov 2015)
Michael Colreavy: 68. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will suspend the research project by the Environmental Protection Agency into hydraulic fracturing due to concerns regarding the independence and integrity of the project. [39146/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hydraulic Fracturing Policy (10 Nov 2015)
Michael Colreavy: Will the Minister of State suspend the research project by the Environmental Protection Agency into hydraulic fracturing due to the concerns regarding the independence and integrity of the project? The Minister of State's response may include a rehash of how the EPA research started and the fact that no licences will issue until the report comes in. If so, will the Minister skip that part...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hydraulic Fracturing Policy (10 Nov 2015)
Michael Colreavy: I do not know about the Minister of State, but when I see a company like CDM Smith leading and co-ordinating this project as well as having an influential role in deciding who will do the various phases of the work, like any reasonable person, I am entitled to question the independence and integrity of the report. I have no doubt it will cause irreparable damage to the reputation of the EPA....
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hydraulic Fracturing Policy (10 Nov 2015)
Michael Colreavy: I thank the Minister of State. He made a good attempt to try to convince me of the independence and integrity of the project. His attempt failed and will fail with most reasonable people listening to the debate. There is a wider context. I have spoken to many Deputies and Ministers in the House. All of them told me fracking will never be allowed to happen on this small island. It is...
- Other Questions: Postal Codes (10 Nov 2015)
Michael Colreavy: Sorry-----
- Other Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (10 Nov 2015)
Michael Colreavy: 74. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources for an update on the national broadband plan intervention strategy; and if a decision has been reached as to how it is to be rolled out and funded. [38964/15]
- Other Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (10 Nov 2015)
Michael Colreavy: In respect of the last question, the Minister will know that I asked the very questions that have now been posed by the Comptroller and Auditor General. I said I did not get adequate answers to them. If the Minister and the Department had listened to the concerns I expressed, we would not now have the adverse report.
- Other Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (10 Nov 2015)
Michael Colreavy: I commend Deputy Broughan on his raising of the matter. Can we focus in my question on the ownership of the infrastructure after the roll-out of broadband? Unlike those in Fianna Fáil beside me, I may be politically naive.
- Other Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (10 Nov 2015)
Michael Colreavy: However, I trust that the Government will do what it says on the tin. Ireland badly needs the broadband roll-out. If it does not happen, the Government will know all about it at the next election.
- Other Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (10 Nov 2015)
Michael Colreavy: While I thank the Minister for the reply, I am still unclear as to the Government's strategy on the ownership of the infrastructure. Is it the Government's intention that most of the infrastructure - the spine of the system - will be in public ownership? Is it the Government's intention that the spine and the connections to the more rural areas will be in public ownership? Alternatively,...
- Other Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (10 Nov 2015)
Michael Colreavy: I understand the answer.
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Postal Codes (10 Nov 2015)
Michael Colreavy: 83. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will take action to resolve the issues identified in the Comptroller and Auditor General’s report for 2014 relating to the implementation of Eircode. [38962/15]